Category: Music

Lennon/McCartney

This was supposed to be a video. Video never got made.

Chapman –

Life, it often doesn’t seem to be fair. Then we grow up and mature, and hopefully realize that we are responsible for ourselves. We are in control of how fair or not life might be…

Chapman –

Dore was petting Callie, one of our dogs, and as is normal for a dog, Callie didn’t want her to stop. Dore started cooing to Callie that she was a glutton for love. Next thing I knew, Brian Ferry was singing in my head. Things just evolved from there…

Tchaikovsky/Chapman –

Ever since creating my version of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy for the Twisted Christmas series, I’ve been tossing around the idea of creating my version of the entire Nutcracker Suite. Well, here’s the first three pieces of the suite, Overture, March, and the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy. I don’t know if this will go any further than this, or if this is as much of the suite as I’ll create, but here it is.

Chapman –

Have you ever had one of those dreams that starts out ok, then suddenly you find yourself running for your life? Me neither…

Ambegin – Shifting Relations

Chapman –

The starting point of this set of pieces. All three works start virtually the same, but don’t stay that way. This was the first of the three, and was intended to be a play of shifting interval relationships.

Ambidance – Tension and Release

Chapman –

This piece is all about building tension, and then releasing it. It plays with slightly different tempos, and the overlap between them, as well as contrasting harmonic relationships that build tension, and then release it.

Special Guests: Baba Kwasi, Nana Kweku, and Diabate Moussa on Drums

Ambijam – Flow

Chapman –

The final piece in this trilogy is all about finding the flow and going with it, adapting to changing conditions. It’s also about taking elements that aren’t normally found together, and combining them in a harmonious way to build something greater than the separate parts and pieces.

Special Guests: Baba Kwasi, Nana Kweku, and Diabate Moussa on Drums

Spears –

One thing I always enjoy is taking something familiar, and twisting it to something completely different. Now, if you liked the original version of this song, then this version is probably not for you. Now, if like me, you go into diabetic shock when you hear the original, then you may be twisted enough to like this version…